From owner-p4-releng Sat Nov 9 6:39: 5 2002 Delivered-To: p4-releng@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id C043937B404; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 06:39:03 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: perforce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8605437B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 06:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB0443E42 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 06:39:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 32640 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2002 14:39:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Nov 2002 14:39:04 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA9Ed1n5065915; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 09:39:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200211090702.gA972ACj025344@intruder.bmah.org> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:39:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Bruce A. Mah" Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 20884 for review Cc: Perforce Change Reviews , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-p4-releng@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Nov-2002 Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, "David O'Brien" wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:52:48PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: >> > + Installations from boot floppies are no longer supported on >> > + the alpha platform. The combination of the boot loader and a >> > + (highly stripped-down) kernel is too large to fit on a >> > + 1.44 MB floppy disk. Some work in this area is ongoing; >> > + this feature may return before &os; >> > + &release.next;. >> >> Perhaps mention that one can 'dd' a relatively small install image on an >> HD to make up for the desupport of floppy installs? > > Sounds good. Do we have a procedure for making up such an image? I'm > kind of clueless on this... You could dd an ISO image onto the disk and it would work. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-releng" in the body of the message